Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Malware is all about money. Spyware stealthily captures keystrokes and sensitive data to compromise accounts. Phishing attacks lure users into unwittingly surrendering account credentials and other crucial information. Ransomware uses a much less subtle tactic of demanding the money directly in exchange for the safe return of your own data.The ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010 Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don't use Metasploit every day. If you want to learn Metasploit and grow ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010 RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. Function of this software is to crack hash.The straightforward way to crack hash is brute force. In brute force approach, all candidate plaintexts and corresponding hashes are computed one by one. The computed hashes are compared with ...
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010 Another 0-day bug on the Windows platform is affecting win32k.sys (a critical component of the Windows kernel), and this time, the approach seems to pose a major challenge to the security world. This vulnerability is triggered by a buffer overflow in the kernel file, which allows code to bypass UAC ...
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010 The Web is an insecure place and getting more insecure all the time. The latest threat, the Firesheep add-in for Firefox, is particularly dangerous because it is exceedingly simple to use. Someone with absolutely no hacking experience can grab your private login information to sites such as Facebook and Amazon, ...
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